Italian Literature
A.Y. 2022/2023
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with a critical knowledge of the main elements of the Italian literary system, from the Origins to the Seventeenth century, following the tradition and development of models, themes, forms.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student must know the fundamental aspects and issues of Italian literature from the Origins to the Seventeenth century, with a proper historic contextualization and specific reference to genres, themes and poetics, authors and works, methods of transmission of texts and their philological problems. Furthermore, the student will have to know the tools (metric elements, rhetoric, style theory and narratology) and the critical methodologies necessary to analyse and interpret the texts.
The student will then have to demonstrate the ability to understand and analyse literary texts (in their thematic and formal aspects), framing them in their respective contexts. Likewise, the student must demonstrate competence in the comprehension and use of literary essays, ability to identify the bibliography and to make use of the main tools of bibliographic resources, as well as the ability to communicate clearly and correctly, both in oral and written presentation, with appropriate use of scientific terminology.
The student will then have to demonstrate the ability to understand and analyse literary texts (in their thematic and formal aspects), framing them in their respective contexts. Likewise, the student must demonstrate competence in the comprehension and use of literary essays, ability to identify the bibliography and to make use of the main tools of bibliographic resources, as well as the ability to communicate clearly and correctly, both in oral and written presentation, with appropriate use of scientific terminology.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
(A-D)
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The class is subdivided into two units.
Unit A offers some exemplary critical readings selected from the main texts of the Italian literary tradition, typically from the Middle Ages and Dante to Romanticism. Its content will be assessed in a written exam at the end of the class.
In Unit B (which may vary every year) the focus is on a specific work, author, or literary movement, treated monographically. Unit B will be the main topic of the discussion during the oral exam.
This year's class examines "Italian" literature's troubled encounter with the "other", both as a character and as a geo-cultural setting - from the late 19th-century, through the culture of the Italian diaspora, to the present.
Unit A offers some exemplary critical readings selected from the main texts of the Italian literary tradition, typically from the Middle Ages and Dante to Romanticism. Its content will be assessed in a written exam at the end of the class.
In Unit B (which may vary every year) the focus is on a specific work, author, or literary movement, treated monographically. Unit B will be the main topic of the discussion during the oral exam.
This year's class examines "Italian" literature's troubled encounter with the "other", both as a character and as a geo-cultural setting - from the late 19th-century, through the culture of the Italian diaspora, to the present.
Prerequisites for admission
The class is conducted entirely in Italian. Course materials and readings require an average knowledge of the main currents of Italian medieval, early modern ad modern literature, set in their historic and cultural context, with special emphasis on their literary and linguistic peculiarities.
Teaching methods
The class consists in 30 lectures. Students are strongly invited to turn in written assignments, the content of which is discussed with the teacher. These papers, though, are not mandatory.
Teaching Resources
Unit A
Course materials are uploaded in the Ariel portal: https://ariel.unimi.it
Unit B
Texts
Arrigo Boito, L'alfier nero
Pietro di Donato, Christ in Concrete
Plinio Martini, Il fondo del sacco, Casagrande, Bellinzona
Elvira Mujčić, Dieci prugne ai fascisti, Elliot, Roma
Criticism
Martino Marazzi, Italexit. Saggi su Risorgimento e disunione nazionale, Franco Cesati, Firenze 2019
Stefano Lazzarin, L'altro, l'esotico e il perturbante nell' "Alfier nero" (1867) di Arrigo Boito, in "Italianistica", nn. 1-2, 2007 [downloadable through unimi.it]
Sebastiano Martelli, Cibo e lutto nella letteratura dell'emigrazione, in "Oltreoceano", 4, 2010 [downloadable online]
Peter Kvidera, Ethnic Identity and Cultural Catholicism in Pietro di Donato's "Christ in Concrete", in MELUS, 35, 3, 2010 [downloadable through unimi.it]
Additional readings for non-attending students
Marisa Fenoglio, Il ritorno impossibile, Nutrimenti, Roma
Elvira Mujčić, La lingua di Ana, Infinito edizioni, Castelgandolfo (Roma)
Giovanna Miceli Jeffries, Mondo nuovo, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (Catanzaro)
Course materials are uploaded in the Ariel portal: https://ariel.unimi.it
Unit B
Texts
Arrigo Boito, L'alfier nero
Pietro di Donato, Christ in Concrete
Plinio Martini, Il fondo del sacco, Casagrande, Bellinzona
Elvira Mujčić, Dieci prugne ai fascisti, Elliot, Roma
Criticism
Martino Marazzi, Italexit. Saggi su Risorgimento e disunione nazionale, Franco Cesati, Firenze 2019
Stefano Lazzarin, L'altro, l'esotico e il perturbante nell' "Alfier nero" (1867) di Arrigo Boito, in "Italianistica", nn. 1-2, 2007 [downloadable through unimi.it]
Sebastiano Martelli, Cibo e lutto nella letteratura dell'emigrazione, in "Oltreoceano", 4, 2010 [downloadable online]
Peter Kvidera, Ethnic Identity and Cultural Catholicism in Pietro di Donato's "Christ in Concrete", in MELUS, 35, 3, 2010 [downloadable through unimi.it]
Additional readings for non-attending students
Marisa Fenoglio, Il ritorno impossibile, Nutrimenti, Roma
Elvira Mujčić, La lingua di Ana, Infinito edizioni, Castelgandolfo (Roma)
Giovanna Miceli Jeffries, Mondo nuovo, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (Catanzaro)
Assessment methods and Criteria
Written + oral exam:
a two-hour written exam on Unit A (no dictionary allowed) tests the understanding of the specificities of literary texts, as well as students' familiarity with the basics of critical scholarship, and their acquisition of a personal and grounded judgement. Clarity and rigor of the analysis is required through a proper use of the critical vocabulary.
Grades breakdown: Fail, Basic, Average, Good, Excellent.
Once the written part is completed, students can access to the oral exam (Unit B). Those who are graded as Fail will have to repeat the written exam. The oral part asks for the same learning requirements as the written part, and, in compliance with the Italian academic tradition, will be graded on a 30-point scale, from 18/30 to 30/30 cum laude .
a two-hour written exam on Unit A (no dictionary allowed) tests the understanding of the specificities of literary texts, as well as students' familiarity with the basics of critical scholarship, and their acquisition of a personal and grounded judgement. Clarity and rigor of the analysis is required through a proper use of the critical vocabulary.
Grades breakdown: Fail, Basic, Average, Good, Excellent.
Once the written part is completed, students can access to the oral exam (Unit B). Those who are graded as Fail will have to repeat the written exam. The oral part asks for the same learning requirements as the written part, and, in compliance with the Italian academic tradition, will be graded on a 30-point scale, from 18/30 to 30/30 cum laude .
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
(E-N)
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
Title of the course: Tools and texts of Italian literature (60 hours, 9 cfu)
Teaching unit A (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from XIII to early XVI century
Teaching unit B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from late XVI century XIX century
Teaching unit C (20 hours, 3 cfu): Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furios
The course is aimed at undergraduate Science of Cultural Property students whose surname begins with E-N.
The teaching program of units A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Leopardi and Manzoni; teaching unit C is dedicated to the analysis of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso.
Teaching unit A (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from XIII to early XVI century
Teaching unit B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from late XVI century XIX century
Teaching unit C (20 hours, 3 cfu): Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furios
The course is aimed at undergraduate Science of Cultural Property students whose surname begins with E-N.
The teaching program of units A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Leopardi and Manzoni; teaching unit C is dedicated to the analysis of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso.
Prerequisites for admission
No prerequisites for admission. Nevertheless, a good high-school background is the ideal prerequisite for the course, which, however, is also thought to amend shortcomings.
Teaching methods
The course will be in Italian, through frontal lessons; attendance is not mandatory, though strongly recommended.
Units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects. All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program.
Units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects. All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program.
Teaching Resources
Teaching units A and B
Reference text:
- Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, a cura di Gabriele Baldassari e Guglielmo Barucci, Milano, Cortina, 2021.
The volume consists of a part of history of Italian literature and of a section of texts; both of them are to be prepared for the exam, along with notes of the lessons and further material uploaded on Ariel.
Students interested in a deeper knowledge of Italian literature should look at
- Gianfranco Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, 2 vols., Milano, Mondadori Università, 2018 (I. Dalle origini a metà Cinquecento; II. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento).
Useful reference tools for metre and poetic forms could be:
- Pietro G. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012 [I ed. 1996]
or:
- Giuseppe Sangirardi, Francesco De Rosa, Breve guida alla metrica italiana, Milano, Sansoni, 2002
Useful reference for rethoric could be:
- Bice Mortara Garavelli, Prima lezione di retorica, Roma - Bari, Laterza, 2011
Attending Students
The students will be asked to prepare the whole Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, in addition to the materials uploaded on Ariel site.
Not Attending Students
The students will be asked to prepare the whole Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, in addition to the materials uploaded on Ariel site.
Teaching unit C
Attending Students
Reference text: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso. Suggested editions:
- Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso, commento di Emilio Bigi, a cura di Cristina Zampese, BUR, Milano, 2012.
- Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso e cinque canti, a cura di Remo Ceserani e Sergio Zatti, 2 volumi, UTET, Torino, 2015.
Students are asked to prove an overall knowledge of the work (writing, structure, models, themes, style).
Poem's cantos and parts required for the examination will be indicated on Ariel site before the end of the course.
More texts to be discussed in the class will be available on Ariel.
Furthermore, students are required to study:
- Sergio Zatti, Il Furioso fra epos e romanzo [1990], Premessa di Michele Comelli, Milano, Ledizioni, capitolo VI, pp. 127-171.
- Corrado Confalonieri, Che cosa c'è di "ariostesco" in Ariosto. Considerazioni su ironia e soprannaturale nel "Furioso" (e sul modo di parlarne), in «AOQU», II, 1 (2021) - Epica e meraviglioso, pp. 63-88 [reperibile online all'indirizzo https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/aoqu/article/view/16045]
- One of the following entries from the Lessico critico dell'"Orlando furioso", a cura di Annalisa Izzo, Roma, Carocci, 2016:
o Franco Tomasi, Entrelacement, pp. 61-80
o Francesco Ferretti, Generi, pp. 99-128
o Maria Cristina Cabani, Intertestualità, pp. 153-176
o Stefano Jossa, Ironia, pp. 177-197
o Sergio Zatti, Oggetti, pp. 283-300
o Albert Russell Ascoli, Proemi, pp. 341-365
Not Attending Students
Not attending students, in addition to the references above for attending students, will study:
- Stefano Jossa, Ariosto, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009.
Reference text:
- Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, a cura di Gabriele Baldassari e Guglielmo Barucci, Milano, Cortina, 2021.
The volume consists of a part of history of Italian literature and of a section of texts; both of them are to be prepared for the exam, along with notes of the lessons and further material uploaded on Ariel.
Students interested in a deeper knowledge of Italian literature should look at
- Gianfranco Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, 2 vols., Milano, Mondadori Università, 2018 (I. Dalle origini a metà Cinquecento; II. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento).
Useful reference tools for metre and poetic forms could be:
- Pietro G. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012 [I ed. 1996]
or:
- Giuseppe Sangirardi, Francesco De Rosa, Breve guida alla metrica italiana, Milano, Sansoni, 2002
Useful reference for rethoric could be:
- Bice Mortara Garavelli, Prima lezione di retorica, Roma - Bari, Laterza, 2011
Attending Students
The students will be asked to prepare the whole Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, in addition to the materials uploaded on Ariel site.
Not Attending Students
The students will be asked to prepare the whole Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, in addition to the materials uploaded on Ariel site.
Teaching unit C
Attending Students
Reference text: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso. Suggested editions:
- Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso, commento di Emilio Bigi, a cura di Cristina Zampese, BUR, Milano, 2012.
- Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso e cinque canti, a cura di Remo Ceserani e Sergio Zatti, 2 volumi, UTET, Torino, 2015.
Students are asked to prove an overall knowledge of the work (writing, structure, models, themes, style).
Poem's cantos and parts required for the examination will be indicated on Ariel site before the end of the course.
More texts to be discussed in the class will be available on Ariel.
Furthermore, students are required to study:
- Sergio Zatti, Il Furioso fra epos e romanzo [1990], Premessa di Michele Comelli, Milano, Ledizioni, capitolo VI, pp. 127-171.
- Corrado Confalonieri, Che cosa c'è di "ariostesco" in Ariosto. Considerazioni su ironia e soprannaturale nel "Furioso" (e sul modo di parlarne), in «AOQU», II, 1 (2021) - Epica e meraviglioso, pp. 63-88 [reperibile online all'indirizzo https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/aoqu/article/view/16045]
- One of the following entries from the Lessico critico dell'"Orlando furioso", a cura di Annalisa Izzo, Roma, Carocci, 2016:
o Franco Tomasi, Entrelacement, pp. 61-80
o Francesco Ferretti, Generi, pp. 99-128
o Maria Cristina Cabani, Intertestualità, pp. 153-176
o Stefano Jossa, Ironia, pp. 177-197
o Sergio Zatti, Oggetti, pp. 283-300
o Albert Russell Ascoli, Proemi, pp. 341-365
Not Attending Students
Not attending students, in addition to the references above for attending students, will study:
- Stefano Jossa, Ariosto, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam consists of a preliminary written test on the teaching units A and B and an oral test on the teaching unit C; both are aimed at ascertaining students' knowledge of the bibliography.
The written test will be held three times a year (on May, on September, on November/December 2023); passing the written test is prerequisite for the oral examination. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published in Ariel in the dedicated section.
The written test (90 minutes) counts of two sections: 6 closed-ended questions on technical aspects (chronology, works, metre, rhetoric) and 4 short open questions (max 10 lines) on authors, themes, and works. A fifth question is the analysis of a text: the student will be required to define author, work, genre, metrics, rhyme scheme, and to provide a paraphrasis and a short cultural and stylistical framework.
The analysis will concerne one of the following texts (or part of texts), provided in the Anthology:
- Jacopo da Lentini, Amor è uno desio che ven da core
- Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore (stanzas I e IV)
- Guido Cavalcanti, Chi è questa che vèn, ch'ogn'om la mira
- Cino da Pistoia, Poscia che saziar non posso li occhi miei
- Dante Alighieri, Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io
- Dante Alighieri, Così nel mio parlar voglio esser aspro (stanzas I e V)
- Dante Alighieri, Vita nova, XIX Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore (stanzas I e II)
- Francesco Petrarca, Rvf 1, Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono
- Francesco Petrarca, Rvf 90, Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi
- Francesco Petrarca, Rvf 272, La vita fugge e non s'arresta una hora
- Luigi Pulci, Morgante, XVIII 115-120
- Pietro Bembo, Crin d'oro crespo
- Giovanni della Casa, Questa vita mortal
- Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso, XXIV 1-3
- Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, I 1-5
- Giambattista Marino, Adone, III 156-158
- Ugo Foscolo, Né più mai toccherò le sacre sponde
- Ugo Foscolo, Dei sepolcri, vv. 137-150
- Giacomo Leopardi, A se stesso
- Giacomo Leopardi, Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia, vv. 133-143
Passing the writtne test on teaching units A and B is a necessary condition for completing the examination.
The oral test consists of a critical discussion on the main issues of the work studied in Unit C. The student will have, at request, to prove his ability to paraphrase the text. The student will be required to prove his ability to develop a critical and organized exposition of the informations and compétences acquired through the classes and the bibliography, with a proper terminology
The final grade will be expressed in the 30 grade point system, and it will take into consideration the grade of the written test.
Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor via email in office hours for further information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the teacher in agreement with the University Disability and SLD Services. It is recommended to respect the indications of the "Documento personalizzato".
The written test will be held three times a year (on May, on September, on November/December 2023); passing the written test is prerequisite for the oral examination. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published in Ariel in the dedicated section.
The written test (90 minutes) counts of two sections: 6 closed-ended questions on technical aspects (chronology, works, metre, rhetoric) and 4 short open questions (max 10 lines) on authors, themes, and works. A fifth question is the analysis of a text: the student will be required to define author, work, genre, metrics, rhyme scheme, and to provide a paraphrasis and a short cultural and stylistical framework.
The analysis will concerne one of the following texts (or part of texts), provided in the Anthology:
- Jacopo da Lentini, Amor è uno desio che ven da core
- Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore (stanzas I e IV)
- Guido Cavalcanti, Chi è questa che vèn, ch'ogn'om la mira
- Cino da Pistoia, Poscia che saziar non posso li occhi miei
- Dante Alighieri, Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io
- Dante Alighieri, Così nel mio parlar voglio esser aspro (stanzas I e V)
- Dante Alighieri, Vita nova, XIX Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore (stanzas I e II)
- Francesco Petrarca, Rvf 1, Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono
- Francesco Petrarca, Rvf 90, Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi
- Francesco Petrarca, Rvf 272, La vita fugge e non s'arresta una hora
- Luigi Pulci, Morgante, XVIII 115-120
- Pietro Bembo, Crin d'oro crespo
- Giovanni della Casa, Questa vita mortal
- Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso, XXIV 1-3
- Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, I 1-5
- Giambattista Marino, Adone, III 156-158
- Ugo Foscolo, Né più mai toccherò le sacre sponde
- Ugo Foscolo, Dei sepolcri, vv. 137-150
- Giacomo Leopardi, A se stesso
- Giacomo Leopardi, Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia, vv. 133-143
Passing the writtne test on teaching units A and B is a necessary condition for completing the examination.
The oral test consists of a critical discussion on the main issues of the work studied in Unit C. The student will have, at request, to prove his ability to paraphrase the text. The student will be required to prove his ability to develop a critical and organized exposition of the informations and compétences acquired through the classes and the bibliography, with a proper terminology
The final grade will be expressed in the 30 grade point system, and it will take into consideration the grade of the written test.
Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor via email in office hours for further information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the teacher in agreement with the University Disability and SLD Services. It is recommended to respect the indications of the "Documento personalizzato".
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
(O-Z)
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
Title of the course: Tools and texts of Italian literature (60 hours, 9 cfu)
Teaching unit A (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from XIII to early XVI century
Teaching unit B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from late XVI century XIX century
Teaching unit C (20 hours, 3 cfu): Alessandro Manzoni's Adelchi
The course is aimed at undergraduate Science of Cultural Property students whose surname begins with O-Z-
The teaching program of units A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Leopardi and Manzoni; teaching unit C is dedicated to the analysis of Alessandro Manzoni's Adelchi.
Teaching unit A (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from XIII to early XVI century
Teaching unit B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from late XVI century XIX century
Teaching unit C (20 hours, 3 cfu): Alessandro Manzoni's Adelchi
The course is aimed at undergraduate Science of Cultural Property students whose surname begins with O-Z-
The teaching program of units A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Leopardi and Manzoni; teaching unit C is dedicated to the analysis of Alessandro Manzoni's Adelchi.
Prerequisites for admission
No prerequisites for admission. Nevertheless, a good high-school background is the ideal prerequisite for the course, which, however, is also thought to amend shortcomings.
Teaching methods
The course will be taught, in Italian, through frontal lessons; attendance is not mandatory, though strongly recommended.
Teaching units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects. All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program.
Teaching units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects. All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program.
Teaching Resources
Teaching units A and B
Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, a cura di Gabriele Baldassari e Guglielmo Barucci, Milano, Cortina, 2021. The volume consists of a part of history of Italian literature and of a section of texts; both of them are to be prepared for the exam, along with notes of the lessons and further material uploaded on Ariel.
Students interested in a deeper knowledge of Italian literature should look at Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, 2 volumi, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2018 (I: Dalle origini a metà Cinquecento e II: Da Tasso a fine Ottocento).
Useful reference tools could be:
a) for metre and poetic forms:
- P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino;
- G. Lavezzi, I numeri della poesia, Roma, Carocci;
- G. Sangirardi-F. De Rosa, Breve guida alla metrica italiana, Milano, Sansoni.
b) for rethoric:
- B. Mortara Garavelli, Prima lezione di retorica, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
*Attending Students*
The students will be asked to prepare the whole Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, in addition to the materials uploaded on Ariel site
*Not Attending Students*
The students will be asked to prepare the whole Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, in addition to the materials uploaded on Ariel site
Teaching unit C
*Attending Students*
Alessandro Manzoni's Adelchi
Edition Suggested
Alessandro Manzoni, Adelchi, a cura di Sergio Blazina, introduzione di Pietro Gibellini, Milano, Garzanti, 2007 e succ.
Students are asked to prove an overall knowledge of the work (writing, structure, models, themes, style). Students are required to study all the paratexts to the edition. For the introductions, specifically pp. XXVI-XXX (Gibellini) e L-LVII (Blazina).
More texts to be discussed in the class will be available on Ariel.
Furthermore, students are required to study:
- C. Annoni, Drammaturgia manzoniana e drammaturgia europea in Ogni speme deserta non è. Studi Manzoniani, a cura di C. Cappelletti e O. Ghidini, Interlinea, 2016, pp. 53-76.
- I. Becherucci, Sulla crisi dell'Adelchi, in "Rivista di letteratura italiana", 12, 1994, 2-3, pp. 383-400.
*Not Attending Students*
Not attending students, in addition to the programm above for attending students, will have to study:
G. Tellini, Manzoni, Salerno 2007 (cap. IV, "Lo scacco del drammaturgo. Non resta che far torto, o patirlo", pp. 113-133).
F. Battera, Dalla rea progenie degli oppressor discesa. Considerazioni sull'Ermengarda manzoniana, in "Lettere italiane", 2012, n. 3, pp. 401-442
Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, a cura di Gabriele Baldassari e Guglielmo Barucci, Milano, Cortina, 2021. The volume consists of a part of history of Italian literature and of a section of texts; both of them are to be prepared for the exam, along with notes of the lessons and further material uploaded on Ariel.
Students interested in a deeper knowledge of Italian literature should look at Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, 2 volumi, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2018 (I: Dalle origini a metà Cinquecento e II: Da Tasso a fine Ottocento).
Useful reference tools could be:
a) for metre and poetic forms:
- P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino;
- G. Lavezzi, I numeri della poesia, Roma, Carocci;
- G. Sangirardi-F. De Rosa, Breve guida alla metrica italiana, Milano, Sansoni.
b) for rethoric:
- B. Mortara Garavelli, Prima lezione di retorica, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
*Attending Students*
The students will be asked to prepare the whole Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, in addition to the materials uploaded on Ariel site
*Not Attending Students*
The students will be asked to prepare the whole Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, in addition to the materials uploaded on Ariel site
Teaching unit C
*Attending Students*
Alessandro Manzoni's Adelchi
Edition Suggested
Alessandro Manzoni, Adelchi, a cura di Sergio Blazina, introduzione di Pietro Gibellini, Milano, Garzanti, 2007 e succ.
Students are asked to prove an overall knowledge of the work (writing, structure, models, themes, style). Students are required to study all the paratexts to the edition. For the introductions, specifically pp. XXVI-XXX (Gibellini) e L-LVII (Blazina).
More texts to be discussed in the class will be available on Ariel.
Furthermore, students are required to study:
- C. Annoni, Drammaturgia manzoniana e drammaturgia europea in Ogni speme deserta non è. Studi Manzoniani, a cura di C. Cappelletti e O. Ghidini, Interlinea, 2016, pp. 53-76.
- I. Becherucci, Sulla crisi dell'Adelchi, in "Rivista di letteratura italiana", 12, 1994, 2-3, pp. 383-400.
*Not Attending Students*
Not attending students, in addition to the programm above for attending students, will have to study:
G. Tellini, Manzoni, Salerno 2007 (cap. IV, "Lo scacco del drammaturgo. Non resta che far torto, o patirlo", pp. 113-133).
F. Battera, Dalla rea progenie degli oppressor discesa. Considerazioni sull'Ermengarda manzoniana, in "Lettere italiane", 2012, n. 3, pp. 401-442
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam consists of a preliminary written test on the teaching units A and B and an oral test on the teaching unit C; both are aimed at ascertaining students' knowledge of the bibliography.
The written test is held in January, May 2023 and November-December 2023; passing the written test is a prerequisite for the oral exam. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published in Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test (90 minutes) counts of two sections: 6 closed-ended questions on technical aspects (chronology, works, metre, rhetoric) and 4 short open questions (max 10 lines) on authors, themes, and works. A fifth question is the analysis of a text: the student will be required to define author, work, genre, metrics, rhyme scheme, and to provide a paraphrasis and a short cultural and stylistical framework. The analysis will concerne one of the following texts (or part of texts), provided in the Anthology.
- Jacopo da Lentini, Amor è uno desio che ven da core
- Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore (stanze I e IV)
- Guido Cavalcanti, Chi è questa che vèn, ch'ogn'om la mira
- Cino da Pistoia, Poscia che saziar non posso li occhi miei
- Dante, Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io
- Dante, Così nel mio parlar voglio esser aspro (stanze I e V)
- Dante, Vita nova: XIX Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore (stanze I e II)
- Francesco Petrarca, Rvf: 1, Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono
- Francesco Petrarca, Rvf: 90, Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi
- Francesco Petrarca, Rvf: 272, La vita fugge e non s'arresta una hora
- Luigi Pulci, Morgante, XVIII 115-120
- Pietro Bembo, Crin d'oro crespo
- Giovanni della Casa, Questa vita mortal
- Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso, XXIV 1-3
- Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, I 1-5
- Giambattista Marino, Adone, III 156-158
- U. Foscolo, Né più mai toccherò le sacre sponde
- U. Foscolo, Dei sepolcri, vv. 137-150
- Giacomo Leopardi, A se stesso
- Giacomo Leopardi, Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia, vv. 133-143
Passing the exam on teaching units A and B is a necessary condition for completing the examination.
The oral test consists of a critical discussion on the main issues of the work studied in Unit C. The student will have, at request, to prove his ability to paraphrase the text. The student will be required to prove his ability to develop a critical and organized exposition of the informations and compétences acquired through the classes and the bibliography, with a proper terminology
The final grade will be expressed in the 30 grade point system, and it will take into consideration the grade of the written test.
Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor via email in office hours for further information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the teacher in agreement with the University Disability and SLD Services.
The written test is held in January, May 2023 and November-December 2023; passing the written test is a prerequisite for the oral exam. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published in Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test (90 minutes) counts of two sections: 6 closed-ended questions on technical aspects (chronology, works, metre, rhetoric) and 4 short open questions (max 10 lines) on authors, themes, and works. A fifth question is the analysis of a text: the student will be required to define author, work, genre, metrics, rhyme scheme, and to provide a paraphrasis and a short cultural and stylistical framework. The analysis will concerne one of the following texts (or part of texts), provided in the Anthology.
- Jacopo da Lentini, Amor è uno desio che ven da core
- Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore (stanze I e IV)
- Guido Cavalcanti, Chi è questa che vèn, ch'ogn'om la mira
- Cino da Pistoia, Poscia che saziar non posso li occhi miei
- Dante, Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io
- Dante, Così nel mio parlar voglio esser aspro (stanze I e V)
- Dante, Vita nova: XIX Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore (stanze I e II)
- Francesco Petrarca, Rvf: 1, Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono
- Francesco Petrarca, Rvf: 90, Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi
- Francesco Petrarca, Rvf: 272, La vita fugge e non s'arresta una hora
- Luigi Pulci, Morgante, XVIII 115-120
- Pietro Bembo, Crin d'oro crespo
- Giovanni della Casa, Questa vita mortal
- Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso, XXIV 1-3
- Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, I 1-5
- Giambattista Marino, Adone, III 156-158
- U. Foscolo, Né più mai toccherò le sacre sponde
- U. Foscolo, Dei sepolcri, vv. 137-150
- Giacomo Leopardi, A se stesso
- Giacomo Leopardi, Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia, vv. 133-143
Passing the exam on teaching units A and B is a necessary condition for completing the examination.
The oral test consists of a critical discussion on the main issues of the work studied in Unit C. The student will have, at request, to prove his ability to paraphrase the text. The student will be required to prove his ability to develop a critical and organized exposition of the informations and compétences acquired through the classes and the bibliography, with a proper terminology
The final grade will be expressed in the 30 grade point system, and it will take into consideration the grade of the written test.
Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor via email in office hours for further information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the teacher in agreement with the University Disability and SLD Services.
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor(s)
Reception:
Office hours: wednesday 15.00-18.00, by appointment only. Nevertheless, due to multiple administrative tasks, appointments could be given in other days.
Department of Literary Studies, Philology and Linguistics; sector Modern Philology, 1st floor, via Francesco Sforza
Reception:
wednesady 15:00-18:00, by appointment by e-mail
First floor of Dipartimento di Studi letterari, filologici e linguistici (via Festa del Perdono, 7)